Buffer
Social media management workspace for scheduling, publishing, and analyzing content across multiple platforms
- Also known as
- buffer
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Buffer?
A platform that lets users draft, schedule, and publish social media posts to multiple networks from one dashboard, with features for team collaboration, audience engagement, and performance tracking.
Buffer pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available. Paid plans start at $5/channel/month, billed monthly or annually with 20% discount for annual commitment.
Free
Free- channels
- 3
- requests
- 3,000/month
- scheduled_posts_per_channel
- 10
- Community inbox
- Schedule posts
- Mobile app
- Basic analytics
- API access (1 key, 1 app client)
Essentials
- requests
- 7,500/month
- scheduled_posts_per_channel
- unlimited (fair use: 5,000)
- Visual content calendar
- Content approval workflows
- Analytics with export (CSV, PDF, markdown)
- Unlimited scheduled posts
- API access (3 keys, 3 app clients)
What Buffer does
The capabilities that matter for social media management software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Pricing transparency
- Transparent
- Free tier
- ✓
- Pricing unit
- Per-seat + per-account
- Networks supported
- LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky,
- TikTok / YouTube support
- ✓
- Post scheduling / queue
- ✓
- Content calendar
- ✓
- Unified inbox / engagement
- ✓
- Social listening / monitoring
- -
- Analytics & reporting
- Advanced
- Approval workflows / client workspaces
- ✓
- AI content generation
- ✓
- Link-in-bio / bundled extras
- ✓
- Mobile app
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (38)
Independently observed- Codex⇄•
- Slack⇄
- YouTube Shorts⇄•
- TikTok
- YouTube
- X
- Threads
- Bluesky
- Mastodon
- Google Business Profile
- Canva
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Cursor
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Google Photos
- IFTTT
- Make
- Microsoft Power Automate
- n8n
- OneDrive
- OpenAI
- Perplexity
- Raycast
- Unsplash
- WordPress
- Zapier
- Bitly
- Feedly
- Evergreen Content Poster
- Nelio Content
- Quuu
- WriteStack
Buffer FAQ
Common questions about Buffer, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Buffer?
A platform that lets users draft, schedule, and publish social media posts to multiple networks from one dashboard, with features for team collaboration, audience engagement, and performance tracking. It is indexed under Social Media Management Software.
Source: https://buffer.com/pricing
Is Buffer free?
Buffer offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $5 per channel per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://buffer.com/pricing
What platforms does Buffer support?
Buffer supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://buffer.com/pricing
Can Buffer be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Buffer, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://buffer.com/pricing
What does Buffer integrate with?
We have confirmed 34 integrations for Buffer, including LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X, Threads and Pinterest, plus 26 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://buffer.com/pricing
What security certifications does Buffer have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Buffer. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Buffer not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://buffer.com/security
Where is Buffer available?
Buffer is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://buffer.com/pricing
Buffer alternatives
Other social media management software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- PlanolyA unified social media management platform for planning, scheduling, and organizing content across multiple channelslow · 48%
- PublerManage and schedule social media posts across multiple platforms from one unified dashboardmedium · 74%
- Agorapulsemedium · 70%
- LoomlyA social media management platform that lets marketing teams schedule content and monitor performance across multiple channels from one dashboardmedium · 72%
- MetricoolA unified social media management platform for planning, publishing, and analyzing content across multiple networks with team collaboration.medium · 63%
- SprinklrUnified customer experience platform powered by AI for managing interactions across multiple channelslow · 25%
Compare Buffer
Side by side against other social media management software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Buffer, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.09 | 9.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.10 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.04 | 4.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.06 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 38 | 0.05 | 1.9 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 10 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Analytics: advanced · Free tier: Yes · Ai content: Yes · Mobile app: Yes · Scheduling: Yes · Link in bio: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 20 | mediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-23 · 50% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Security
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